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Meet The Stress:The Politics of Nostalgia
BY Trace Hacquard
Before people were fainting at Barack Obama rallies, I was sent to Springfield, Illinois to cover the announcement of his candidacy on a bone-chilling February morning. Pains than come with sub-zero temperatures were replaced by chills of hope as Obama made promises in the same space where Lincoln once stood.
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Strip Clubs, Slip-ups and Memory Blanks: Why does the news media focus on triviality rather than politics
BY Chris Hartley
Kevin Rudd’s strip club visit, John Howard’s memory blanks and unsteady feet, and Julia Gillard’s childlessness all seem to take the media’s preference, rather than what’s really important, policy. When it comes to politics the news media often chooses to focus on trivial events that have no bearing on the merits of a candidate’s policies. BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson showed this belief at a speech in Oxford in 2006.
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SCIENTISTS HAVE PROGNOSTICATED MORE DANGERS TO OUR LIFE
BY Israel Jayakaran
There ! The scientific community of our planet are on their warning mission once again.. The latest one is for the Lap top users. Their research has revealed that the heat produced by the laptops kept balanced on your lap, could increase the risk of infertility in you.
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AN INDIAN CELEBRITY IN ENGLAND
BY Israel Jayakaran
She was in the world of films. For how long, one wouldn’t know without some research ! She is reasonably pretty, but prettiness isn’t the only criterion to get a role in a film. Indian cinema is a highly competitive business and one can’t enter into it like you walk into a room.
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THE WALK IN INTERVIEWS
BY Israel Jayakaran
As a retired man and since I have plenty of time on hand, I read through the daily newspaper from the first line to the last. And that includes all the advertisements.
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Great American Dumb Ideas: Gang Phobia
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
America has a long history of gangsters, leaders of gangs that form in economically depressed urban areas. In human evolution, no behavior was more adaptive than a tendency to form close-knit work groups.
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Those frogs have a better Middle East foreign policy than the ross-bifs or yanks.
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
French - Middle East Foreign Policy is much better than the British and American one!
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AN EMPIRE LOST and RE-CAPTURED
BY Israel Jayakaran
Once upon a time in India, ‘cooking’ used to be the prerogative of a woman.
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The Way to Live is to Kill
BY Reece Pocock
Young Jesse hated killing, but he had to do it to live.
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IT IS CONTAGIOUS
BY Israel Jayakaran
It’s a disease and yet not a disease in the technical sense. If you sit next to a person affected by it you too may contract it.
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Turkish Tanks Attack Iraq
BY Stephen John Morgan
Turkish tanks and artillery have begun shelling suspected PKK guerrilla positions in towns and villages in Kurdish Northern Iraq.
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Voting and Town Hall Meetings
BY John Deeds
In our everyday working lives, one barely has time to catch up on home projects that need our attentions, although, our towns, cities, and villages where we do our living need us as well. Perhaps more so than we every thought.
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Okay for Wannabe Australian Prime Minister to visit Strip Club
BY Reece Pocock
The leader of the Labor Party, Kevin Rudd, admitted to visiting Scores Strip Club in New York four years ago. He was drunk and persuaded to go along with a group of men, but only stayed for about twenty minutes.
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If you want independence, then you need to make a better case than a vague and limp “it sounds like
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Scotland's idea of independence is ill thought out and needs to have much more passion and logic in it
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‘ I AM WHO I AM BECAUSE OF MY DAD! ’
BY Lue Deck
(In the hoisted-on his-own-petard Dept:)   Is there better way to expose the truth about our leader than to use his own words to reveal what’s behind the curtain at Boobs R Us?  It’s not The Wizard of Oz; it’s George Bush, Jr.  Here ...
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Mayor of London! Surely eccentricity has its limits?
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
When I was knee high to a pea plant, I started getting interested in politics (in a vain hope to sound intelligent when trying to pick up birds). My mother told me a quote which still sticks to my mind, she said: "Son, you will be torn between two fe...
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With a grain of piquant salt: Ancient Assyrians Alive!
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
I nearly fell out of my chair when I stumbled over a tiny piece of news about the fact that August 7th is declared as the Memorial Day for Assyrian Martyrs. Assyrians? Surely somebody is pulling my leg or its April fool’s day. Assyrians as a people d...
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The future of Iraq: fly apart at the seams or will the seams hold?
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Iraq is going to fly apart at the seams because it does not have a national ethos nor it has a strong visionary leader to lead it
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Great American Dumb Ideas: Prohibition
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
Americans can’t claim any special ability in thinking up dumb stuff. However, we do have a talent for carrying a dumb idea to the extreme.
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Bush "The Texas Ranger"
BY Stephen John Morgan
Having failed in politics, he decided to have a shot at business. With the help of family friends he set up his own oil business, Arbusto Energy. It was a fiasco from the outset, never making a profit.
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Howard Australian Government in Trouble.
BY Reece Pocock
You would expect if you were a democratically elected government, the economy is the best in the region, there is almost full employment, your people are prosperous, the poor are well supported by social security, the prime minister is well regarded by other leaders, you’ve just survived the worst drought in history with hardly an economic ripple, you’re exporting more goods than ever before, and by any test taxation is low you would expect to be re-elected.
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The Misshaping of a President
BY Stephen John Morgan
On the surface, Bush’s decision to stop drinking at the age of forty, would be the first independent, mature decision he had taken in his life.
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Great American Dumb Ideas: Designer God
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
The Bible tells us in the first verse of Genesis: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
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Inside Politics in Iraq
BY Caleb Schaber
A Qada is a meeting of regional representatives in Iraq. Although it is not the same as a county meeting in the United States, it is similar to that in the area of people it represents. The world media reports the bad days in Iraq, but rarely takes the time to focus the lens on the normal days. Schaber takes you inside a Qada meeting in Abu Graib.
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A city of heavy contrast
BY Israel Jayakaran
The roads in all the Indian Metropolitan cities are flooded with people for at lest 20 hours in a day. So, Chennai which is my city of residence is no exception to this rule.
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With a grain of piquant salt - High Inflation – the silent killer
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Inflation kills the poor and hyperinflation kills the state. Zimbabwe is the latest state whose kleptocratic and incompetent leadership has converted the breadbasket of Africa into the sewer.
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Israel Still Practicing 'Bunker Busting'
BY Henk Luf
    Israel Still Practicing 'Bunker Busting' The Israeli Air Force is still practicing its 'bunker-buster' techniques over the Mediterranean as well as over Israeli airspace. Six F15i's, a 707 tanker and an EC2 Hawkeye were recently dete...
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Najaf - now forwards towards an Iraqi revolution!
BY Stephen John Morgan
American and British flags burned and were trampled under foot by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in Najaf last weekend. A crossroads has been reached from which this could be the spring board to a genuine revoutionary struggle against the US occupation and sectarianism. More of these actions are the only chance for Iraq to remain united and to drive out the occupiers as soon as possible.
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Get off My President’s Back!
BY Lue Deck
Hey world, calm down some! Gosh, golly, gee, if we're all so terrible just put America on “hold” for awhile until we get a new leader. Dubya’s warranty runs out next year, and we’re replacing him just as fast as our constitutional processes allow.
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CUBA - The Road to Democracy
BY Henk Luf
    Much has been said as to what might happen to Cuba beyond the Castro era and, as per usual, vested interests have muddied the waters to the extent that those who are likely to eventually run the country have, with the blessing of the ...
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Could the Kurds Kill Iraq?
BY Stephen John Morgan
Such is the mood in Kirkuk that matters could easily take on civil war proportions. For the Kurds, Kirkuk is non-negotiable and for the Arabs it represents the last straw. A move in the direction of independence would mean the collapse of Iraq.
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Will the Real David Hicks Stand UP
BY Reece Pocock
Most of the news reports have been about how badly the US and Australian Governments have handled the capture and subsequent incarceration of Hicks. But, what about the man?
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British Pride – A Dangerous Commodity
BY Linda Lycett
    Have they STILL not learnt yet?   A recent report on the arrival back in the UK of the HMS Cornwall crew states they were in Iraqi waters.   The 15 soldiers and marines still seem to believe this, or they are lying. Evi...
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Politics and Corruption
BY Linda Lycett
    What is it with Men? What makes it so difficult to say 'no' to corruption? Greed perhaps? Lack of self-esteem? Fear?   The likes of Bush, Howard, and Cheney, working things to meet their own political ends; the world's dictator...
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McCain’s little big picture – what is the real situation in Iraq?
BY Stephen John Morgan
Senator John McCain’s gibberish concerning the security situation in Baghdad was intended not to show the "big picture" as he claimed, but to throw dust in the eyes of people, just when the real situation has taken a decisive turn for the worse.
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Great American Dumb Ideas: Teleligion
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
Many popular preachers turn out to have hypocritical secret sex lives or are financially corrupt. Back in 1988, Jimmy Swaggart was exposed for his use of prostitutes.
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With a grain of piquant salt: Its media, Jim, but not as we know it.
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
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I dare you to do this!
BY John Deeds
This week's offering asks us all who are we willing to be in a world that changes day to day, and are we capable of changes for the better, or the worse?
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Pakistan trapped, surrounded, quarantined or just reading too much into it?
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Pakistan is trapped and quarantined by all. Is it reading too much into the situation?
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Are we all actually being thieves and cheats?
BY John Deeds
There's good and bad in all of us. Let's look into the mirror and see whose face we see.
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AUSTRALIAN MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT KEEP DIRT FILES
BY Henk Luf
  It has been discovered that some Australian Members of Parliament are maintaining 'dirt files' on their constituents.   The discovery was made after a constituent of a Federal Liberal Party MP made allegations upon which an independen...
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The Politics of War
BY John Deeds
This article brings forth the ideas we have long known about the politics of war, although perhaps we have forgotten some of the details along the way. Read on . . .
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Iran – The Unwinable War, with Unachievable Aims and Unbelievable Consequences
BY Stephen John Morgan
Despite all the diplomatic jaw-jaw and the attempts by the Bush administration to throw dust in the eyes of the public, it is likely that the U.S. has decided together with Israel to launch a "pre-emptive" attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. Whatever conferences and accords come up, there is only a short window of opportunity to attack, before defeat in Iraq paralyses the U.S. scope for operations. It will be the last war for the lost cause.
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The Great Satan, the wounded snake?
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
The Mad Mullahs and The Great Satan, covert war is manageable but overt war is a disaster
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Iraqis should vote U.S. Military In or Out!
BY Lue Deck
OK, so America did well at nation building with South Korea, Japan, and Germany. Nobody can take that away from us. America also did pretty well with Israel, Thailand and The Philippines. But, as far as Iraq goes...not so good!
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ISRAEL RECEIVES BUNKER-BUSTER WEAPONS
BY Henk Luf
The Israeli Air Force is said to have received 'bunker-buster' bombs from the U.S.
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The Right of Iraq to Self-Determination
BY Stephen John Morgan
Bereft of new ideas for a new epoch, the U.S. is falling back on the old methods of British Imperialism in divide and rule and the sectarian tactics to deal with counter-insurgence. In particular, they are surreptitiously turning to a method which was successfully employed in Malaysia. Whatever our personal opinion of what is the best or most suitable form of government, it is for the Iraqi peoples to work out and decide for themselves rather than our aspirations for them. It is their future.
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U.S. PLANS ATTACK ON IRAN
BY Henk Luf
The U.S. is currently in the planning and implementation phases for an attack on Iran early April.
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The CIA now classed as terrorists? Oooops
BY Henk Luf
The Australian Government has approved the construction of another U.S. spy-base, this one to be constructed near Geraldton in Western Australia.
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IRAQ - BLUEPRINT FOR PEACE
BY Henk Luf
As the conflict in Iraq grinds on in a seemingly endless cycle of sectarian violence and counter violence, very little has been done, its seems, to get a permanent and lasting solution in terms of obtaining stability and personal and financial security within Iraq's population. The U.S. and its allies have no further role to play in Iraq, they have done enough damage already and any external defence and security assistance should come from within the Middle-East or from neutral countries.
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“Lost on a Couch” – Psychological Reasons for the US Defeat in Iraq
BY Stephen John Morgan
In many ways the decisive factors which have lost the war in Iraq are the moral and psychological questions. How long will U.S. troops go on fighting for empty rhetoric and broken promises? How long can they continue to swear allegiance to the lies and deception of their Commander-in-Chief? How long can they keep up a fight without a meaning or cause in order to justify such suffering and death?
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Mehdi Army Chief fled to Iran
BY Stephen John Morgan
A potential Pandora's box opens in Iraq on news of Muqtada al-Sadr's "exile." Will his Mehdi Army split? Could an "Intifada"-style uprising be on the cards in Sadr City?
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The Noise of Music
BY Israel Jayakaran
The  Noise   of    Music   Have you ever tried your throat at singing? Any kind of songs – light, film tunes, classical etc?   Even while contemplating on this thought, Vincent appeared before me  and ...
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The Sisyphean Surge – Petraeus and the making a Greek Tragedy
BY Stephen John Morgan
They say that whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It is also said that madness can be defined by doing the same thing again and again and getting the same wrong result, without ever changing. Sisyphus was one such poor soul in question. Condemned by the Gods to roll a rock up and hill and watch it fall down again, and then continue to repeat the hopeless process for the rest of eternity. His crime had been to try to cheat the Gods, by cheating death and becoming one of them. Likewise the US is now condemned for trying to cheat defeat in Iraq, to repeating the same old mad policies over and over again. If once there was method in the madness, there is now madness in the method. This dysfunctional behaviour can only finally result in some unspeakable abomination.
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Breaking News Middle east
BY Stephen John Morgan
Breaking news – Iraq Sunday 11th Februaryby Stephen J. Morgan   Tikrit – Evidence of two processes seems to be gathering more weight in the two attacks on Sunday morning one in Baghdad and the second near Tikrit, some 80 miles to the north. ...
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UNITED NATIONS DESPERATELY NEEDS HUMAN RIGHTS REFORMS. SURVIVAL OR COLLAPSE? TIME WILL TELL.
BY Henk Luf
To say that the United Nations human rights processes are a farce is to state the obvious rather mildly. Human rights abuses, war crimes and other crimes against humanity put the U.N. in danger of collapse.
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Hated Without a Cause or Is There a Cause?
BY Bhaskar Dasgupta
Why are the Jews and their homeland, Israel hated in this unthinking, disproportionate manner? While what's happening to the Palestinians is a tragedy by every measure, that simply does not explain the viscreal reaction to the Jews.
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GUANTANAMO BAY - THE DAVID HICKS TERRORISM CASE
BY Henk Luf
Quantanamo bay - No Provable Facts, Little Evidence, And Lots Of Fiction.
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The Battle of Baghdad : Perspectives for the Surge
BY Stephen John Morgan
Last stand at the last chance saloon. Best hope is the insurgents take a holiday in Honolulu, until things quiet down. Worst possibility is massacres and huge civilian losses due to fighting with heavy armor in densely populated areas. Some form of Iraqi Intifada cannot be ruled out. Whatever, this is the last chance, no Iraqi will stand for any new U.S. promises or plans in the future. The real showdown is still to come.
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AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY - DEAD BUT NOT YET BURIED
BY Henk Luf
It seems to be becoming more and more obvious that the overall US foreign policy structure appears to have all but collapsed, and that all that remains is for someone to give it decent burial...
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Australian Parliament Members Exposed
BY Henk Luf
An airport somewhere in the Pacific. Tower: "E991, runway 16, proceed right to VIP terminal". E991: "E991 runway 16, turn right to VIP car park." Tower: "Negative, proceed right to VIP terminal with that Global Express. An allocated parking area has been set aside for you". E991: "Thank you tower. As we are not a Global Express but a 777, we'll take the VIP terminal, the car park, the allocated parking area and any other space that might be left-over after that". Tower: "E991, proceed left International terminal Gate 2".
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Australia's Secret Independence
BY Reece Pocock
Australia gained Independence on the 11th December 1931 when the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster. It’s a sad fact that most Australians reading that statement will be gaining the knowledge for the first time. It’s like finding out your father was once in prison, it’s a secret and has to be covered up.
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A VERY ROUGH LANDING
BY Henk Luf
After a recent flight into Santo Domingo during a very rough day resulting in a very rough landing this was the announcement from the cockpit. "Ladies and Gentlemen. This is the co-pilot speaking. Welcome to Santo Domingo. Please remain seated while our Captain will attempt to taxi the undamaged bits of this aircraft to its allocated parking spot". Captain was not amused.
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THE LIES OF IRAQ
BY Henk Luf
The way things have turned out in Iraq, those reading the statistics must be wondering as to how various countries got sucked into a war that nobody wanted, and resulting in a civil war that will take a genius to resolve.
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Humour, Laughs and Mirth
BY Henk Luf
Recent air traffic exchange at Sydney International Airport. Tower: E1815, follow Virgin 761 onto runway 16R. Aircraft E1815: I thank you tower, I have never been told to follow a virgin before but it will be my pleasure.
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IRAN AND THE US - A DANGEROUS GAME OF BRINKMANSHIP
BY Henk Luf
While relations between the US and Iran have not been good ever since the fall of the Shah, the verbal hostilities between the two countries have become increasingly acrimonious in recent months.        In fact, with th...
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Cheer Up America!
BY Lue Deck
Gosh, with all the holiday blues going around, and with all of Uncle Sam's woes these days, it's become real easy to get down on ourselves lately. But don't. It's really not that bad for us. Cheer up everybody!
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Capitalism- For Better or for Worse?
BY Crystal Tein
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AMNESTY For Junior Bush!
BY Lue Deck
America is forgiving, isn’t it? Why shouldn’t somebody start a movement to forgive George Bush Jr. his most grievous mistakes?
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Addictions Anonymous, 24: More On Religion In Recovery
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
The Steps, Traditions, and Promises of Alcoholics Anonymous have become important to millions of people throughout the world. In early chapters of this book, I looked at the philosophy that underlies the steps and traditions, a philosophy that is widely accepted and used in self-help groups. From the beginning, the steps stirred debate and controversy along with a remarkable number of good recovery stories.
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Addictions Anonymous, 23: Group Traditions And Management
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
Not long after A.A. was founded in Ohio in the 1930s, meetings began to experience problems with personalities and procedures. Recovering alcoholics proved to be a tough group to lead without firm rules. They all knew they needed a group for suppo...
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Addictions Anonymous, 22: Continuing The Growth
BY Julian I. Taber, Ph.D.
The last three steps in the recovery program deal with personal growth, a renewed growth that is possible after some amount of clean and sober time. By now, if the reader has been following previous articles, the ideas behind steps ten, eleven and twelve should be rather obvious. Together, these three steps offer a plan for essential, continuing personality development. I will comment on each briefly in this chapter.
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We Shoulda Known About Ex-Congressman Foley!
BY Lue Deck
Our American politics do make for strange bedfellows. And then, they feel the need to cover it all up! It's time for a change! Here's my Top Ten list of reasons WHY we all shoulda known about Mark Foley: 10. His disclosure form shows h...
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Music and politics
Putting The Politic Back Into Pop
Article about anti-bushism in politics and about politics in music generally.

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Bush New World Order and Noam Chomsky
A New World Order?
Whenever I read anything by Chomsky, I feel very uncomfortable, partly because he keeps telling me that the world is in a mess, but mainly because I do not know what to do with this knowledge. I suspect many others feel the same. Chomsky's latest book "Failed States" is no different.

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Lunatics at The UN
Lunatics at The UN
When England’s Prime Minister returned from his meeting with Hitler, Chamberlain waved a signed truce paper and declared to all: He had achieved “Peace in our times!…” Poor Neville had not. And, since The League of Nations died its hapless death, World War Two started forthwith!

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American Blackout
Smokin' Mirrors: American Blackout
Widespread US election fraud has been given the go-over in the new film, 'American Blackout'.

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CNN = Celebrity News Network?
CNN = Celebrity News Network?
One of CNN’s recent headlines indicated Brooke Shields has accepted a face-to-face apology from Tom Cruise for his extremely public criticism of her decision to use anti-depressants to combat the severe post-partum depression she experienced after giving birth to her first child. It was a real CNN Headline. The marriage of our celebrity watching culture to our addition to 24 hour cable news has produced a nasty child. That child is the fact that insignificant celebrity chatter becomes cable news headlines which drone on for days.

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Funny Things to Make Me Laugh ...or why do americans laugh so much
Why America laughs (so much!)
America pursues the art and act of laughing, sometimes relentlessly.

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At the end of the day ... about friends
At the end of the day ... about friends
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Addictions Anonymous. 11: The Addiction Cycle
Addictions Anonymous. 11: The Addiction Cycle
We can summarize the conditions that create addictions this way: Risk Factor(s) + Attitude + Dark Feelings + A Trigger = Vulnerability to Addiction If someone is careful in taking an inventory of risk factors, attitudes, feelin...

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Back in 1990s- The Education System
Back in 1990s- The Education System
A crack at the Singapore Education system back in the 1990s

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Smokin' Mirrors wants you!!
Smokin' Mirrors wants you!!
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Pop Tart - Enjoying life as a nobody
Pop Tart - Enjoying life as a nobody
You do not look good in those long shorts. Yes, you. You do not look good in those long shorts. I know it’s summer. I know it’s hot. The druids celebrated the solstice with dances and ceremonies. We go shopping. It’s time to pi...

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Addictions Anonymous, 9: How Attitudes, Beliefs And Values Create Vulnerability
Addictions Anonymous, 9: How Attitudes, Beliefs And Values Create Vulnerability
If you’re miserable you probably know it even if you think you can’t control it, and you can very likely tell exactly what is making you miserable. On the other hand, some people have been so miserable for so long that they actually don’t recog...

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Reasons Why Americans Fail to Vote
Why SO FEW Americans Vote!
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How to stop war?
How To Stop The War in 5 Hard Steps (A Preemptive Peace Attack!)
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Smokin Mirrors: Comics for the politically bent
Smokin Mirrors: Comics for the politically bent
It's 2011. The Iraq war has been going for 8 years, and is spreading. A self confessed enemy of the corporate world, the young and cocky blog journalist Jimmy Burns, unwittingly finds himself at the right place at the right time...

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Addictions Anonymous, 4: A Bit Of History
Addictions Anonymous, 4: A Bit Of History
Historically, people made moral judgments about addictions without doing much about them. Calling addiction a sin, of course, is not very effective in bringing about a change in behavior.

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Chavez, OPEC and oil George W. can't control
Smokin' Mirrors: Chavez, OPEC and oil George W. can't control
In 2002 a largely suspected US-backed coup to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez failed. Now, four years on, Venezuela will host the annual OPEC meeting in Caracas on June 1, when Chavez is expected to announce a call to recognise Venezuela's oil reserves as being the largest in the world. If you listen carefully, you just might hear George W. break into a sweat...

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Addictions Anonymous, 2: Self-help, Professionals And The Role of Religion
Addictions Anonymous, 2: Self-help, Professionals And The Role of Religion
If mental health professionals find problems with my ideas, senior members of the various Twelve Step groups may well join them in the complaint department because I suggest, in the pages to follow, some re-wording of those basic Twelve Steps.

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Addictions Anonymous: Introduction
Addictions Anonymous: Introduction
In this series of columns I describe a universal and secular self-help program for recovery from addiction. It is universal because it includes all addictive behaviors in a single program. It is secular because it avoids controversial references to religious themes while preserving and developing the philosophy of the original Twelve Steps written by William Wilson for Alcoholics Anonymous.

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Smokin' Mirrors: Just Keep Rovin' on...
Smokin' Mirrors: Just Keep Rovin' on...
In a dramatic twist in the long and drawn out saga that is the Valerie Plame case, Karl Rove was charged this week with perjury and lying to investigators about how and when he discovered that Ms Plame, also known as Ms Wilson, was a CIA operative and whether he shared that information with reporters, reported Truthout’s Jason Leopold.

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A look at Singaporean music scene
A look at Singaporean music scene
Singapore rock, for the hardcore scenester is largely disappointing, for like a Frank Kafka novel (whilst lacking the literary polish), it’s a perennial case almost there. The most telling example would of local punk pop band Pug Jelly who after the heights of opening before Canadian rock princess Avril Lavigne and her fiancé, Derek Whibley’s Sum 41, almost faded into the obscurity of the indie punk scene.

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The Political System’s Broken. Let’s Fix It!
The Political System’s Broken. Let’s Fix It!
Is our political system broken? Whew, is it ever! It’s in shambles! Let’s look at some of the brokenness. First, lawmakers at all levels continue to be caught illegally feathering their own nests at the expense of the taxpayer. It doesn’t matter the party.

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Smokin' Mirrors: A Tribute to Marla Ruzicka (1976-2005)
Smokin' Mirrors: A Tribute to Marla Ruzicka (1976-2005)
Marla Ruzicka was tragically killed in a car bomb explosion in Iraq on April 16 2005. One year on, we take a look at what CIVIC, the organisation she founded, still has to say about the innocent victims of war.

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When Women ruled Earth – the next matriarchate
When Women ruled Earth – the next matriarchate
The election of President Michelle Bachelet in Chile and that of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia revealed to the world the increasing role played at the highest levels by females in politics. But let’s face it, this is certainly not news…Given

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Australian Wheat Board
Smokin' Mirrors: The Cheers Weekly Political Column
Hello and welcome to the political column of Cheers Magazine. I'm Willie, and I would like to thank Cheers for allowing me to do what every reporter would love to: write about politics. That is, unless you want to write about fashion. No offence to the fashionistas out there!

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Liberals (three little ones actually)
The Three Little Liberals - a cautionary fable about political views
Let me in, let me in little liberal, and give me your cash for a private investment accounts, or I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll legislate, and blow your little liberal house right in!

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Designing America :- #4: Some Problems In Constitutional Wording
Designing America :- #4: Some Problems In Constitutional Wording
There once was a man who fell in love with and bought a two hundred year old house. It had some problems although it was attractive, historically important and certainly worth preserving. But, he wanted to be able to live in it, so he added new bathrooms, built an annex for a modern kitchen and some larger bedrooms.

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U.S. Executions reach 1000
U.S. Executions reach 1000
I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.-Thomas Grasso (Executed in Oklahoma)

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Designing America, #2: The Constitutional Convention
Designing America, #2: The Constitutional Convention
In eloquent language our Declaration Of Independence of 1776, outlined the goals and ambitions, the lofty ideals, of the nation’s founders. Many of these ideas were voiced earlier by English and French philosophers.

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Designing America: Why Bother?
Designing America: Why Bother?
Over Thanksgiving dinner a guest challenged a political opinion I’d offered. She said, “Why bother having opinions, you can’t change anything about this country?”

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Word of the day
Today’s word is socialize
This is sort of a "recommended horoscope", good horoscope that should make your day or year. We bring you word of the day which actually applies to the whole year.

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